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From: hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Inn, Rnews, and UUCP
Date: 29 Jul 1993 21:37:32 +0200
Organization: Nosimals & Co.
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <2398uaINNhb@flinx.RoBIN.de>
References: <CAsByz.3Eo2@austin.ibm.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: flinx.robin.de
Keywords: inn, rnews, uucp
boyd@austin.ibm.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) writes:
>What are the permissions and ownerships of rnews and uux supposed to be?
On my system (IN 1.2, Taylor-UUCP 1.04) it's
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root news 62420 Sep 18 1992 /bin/rnews
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 106496 Feb 28 18:27 /usr/bin/uux
rnews calls setgid() and setuid() internally, so it executes effectively
with user=uucp and group=news when called from uuxqt.
Hannes
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